Read Ma Fei's Bird Cage
Ji xian
The poet Ma Fei wrote a poem "Bird Cage", which made me read it with admiration. The more I look at this once-in-a-lifetime pen, the more I like it, not only with great envy, but also with a little jealousy. I just wish I could have it.
The whole picture of the birdcage is as follows:
open
bird cage
door
Let the birds fly
go to
Put freedom
recover
bird
prison
In my opinion, the arrangement of this poem itself is "poetic" rather than "prose". If you arrange it as:
Open the door of the birdcage,
Let the birds fly away,
Still free.
Birds, cages.
It is not impossible. But in this way, "poetry" is completely lost. The words "bird" and "cage" must be separated, each occupying a line, which is "poem". This is a new poem! This is modern poetry!
Speaking of the theme of this poem, Ma Fei not only returned "freedom" to "bird" and "cage", but also a third party-me-was here. Let the birds be free, let the cages be free, and let the readers be free-the so-called "leave some for the readers to think about" is full of meaning. Well done! What a great artistic means!
Friends, please use your imagination to create a picture-Ji Xian standing on the highest mountain in San Francisco, toasting Ma Fei in Chicago. Well, that's it. I should stop writing, too, because I can't finish writing.
19941February 20th, I lived in Meixitang Peninsula.
Originally published in New World Poetry, No.27,1April, 995; Warburg,1May 99518; Li Poetry Journal, 187,1June, 995; Ji Xian's Journey to a Thousand Girls, Literature and History Philosophy Publishing House, 199 1 year.
Third, write birdcage.
Poetry is a spiritual universe, which makes people's senses rise to the level of "spirit", injects "spirituality" into people's hearts and eliminates "servility", and people's creativity is infinite.
The creativity of poetry is also infinite.
Mr. Ma Fei wrote Bird Cage three times, forming a series of "bird cages", and his poetry creation entered a "virtual realm".
Ma Fei's aesthetic consciousness and thinking are different from those of his predecessors. He created the realm of "non-reality and non-emptiness, big reality and big emptiness".
His series of poems, such as Bird Cage, Bird Cage and Sky, have gone beyond the "physical image view" and entered the "virtual image view".
"Bird cage" wrote:
Open/Cage/Door/Let Birds Fly/Walk/Free/Bird/Cage.
This is a transcendental "virtual view". His aesthetic consciousness changed from "real scene" to "empty scene"
The thinking mode of this poem by Ma Fei is contrary to ordinary people: it goes beyond "the view of things". Most people think that opening the cage door and letting the bird fly away is, of course, returning freedom to the bird. This is called "seeing things with reality", and everything is "real". Non-horses have different ways of looking at things-the so-called "anti-reverse thinking" means implementing "anti-reverse" in "real scene" and adopting "empty scene" in artistic conception. "Returning to freedom/bird/cage" is a transcendence of "empty view".
The cage closed the bird, and the cage itself was bound and lost its freedom. The way people look at things is that birds are not free in cages, but not in cages. This is a "view of things" and stays in a small "reality".
It is not a big jump, but a big jump from the "view of things" and a "virtual view", which broadens our horizons.
He entered an advanced field of freedom: universal freedom.
He wrote Bird Cage three times: The first time was Free/Bird/Cage.
The second song "Look at the Bird Cage":
Open/birdcage/door/let birds fly//walk//give freedom/come back/sky/air.
Ma Fei said: "I wrote a poem called Bird Cage many years ago, which was quite new at that time. Today, it still seems to have its limitations. Because putting a bird in a cage involves more than just the cage itself. " "Give freedom/return/sky/air" not only broadens our horizons, but also is a different way of looking at things. Freedom in the sky is not "empty", nor is it freedom with nothing. Cosmic holography, everything is a whole, birds are locked in cages, and the sky is not free. If there are no birds flying in the sky, then the sky is lonely and introverted. Birds fly freely in the sky, and freedom becomes universal.
The third time, he wrote "Bird Cage and Sky":
Open/birdcage/door/let birds fly freely/fly freely/enter/birdcage/become/the sky from now on. This is big in and big out, the universe is holographic and the universe is free!
Bird cage/has become/the sky ever since. The first is "reverse", the second is forward, and the third is "synthesis".
"Synthetic" what? Reaching the highest state: the state of "big entry and big exit", this is the real freedom!
"Let the birds fly/go out/fly again/come in freely", how wonderful!
The free flight of Mr. Ma Fei's great soul.